D&A Construction Midget girls’ hockey team won the ‘C’ final of a tournament in Emo, downing the Red Lake/Ear Falls OPP Polar Bears 6-1 on Sunday. After Jennifer Krag gave D&A a 1-0 lead midway through the first period, Shannon Koval (assisted by Erin McIvor), Alicia Giles, and Jennifer Caul […]
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Shane Katona, who passed his gold-level performances, led the local Border Figure Skating Club at a test day in Kenora last weekend. “It means he’s passed every skills level,” BFSC coach Penny McComb enthused. “It’s fabulous for him. He skated with top honours and around here that’s a terrific feat […]
Each year, five NorWOSSA teams start the season with a clean slate. No wins, no losses, no ties. Throughout the campaign, teams expect to pick up their share of each along the way. But this past season was an exception to the rule. The Muskies defied the odds by breezing […]
If experience is the key to victory, then Scott Gobeil’s Fort Frances rink should be in good shape heading into the annual National Police Curling Championships which start this Saturday in Halifax. Gobeil will be making his sixth trip in seven years to the nationals while this marks number nine […]
Kyle Herr scored the game-winning goal with about four minutes left to lift the Foodtown Fury to a narrow 1-0 victory over the Red Lake Diggers on Sunday in the final of a 20-team tournament in Dryden. Ryan Faragher, who was spectacular in goal for the Fury all weekend, earned […]
Emo minor hockey teams certainly weren’t gracious hosts over the past week, winning five of their seven games. In Atom action, Maverick Judson scored with just six seconds left to lift the Emo Esso Leafs to a narrow 4-3 win over Gillons’ (Fort Frances). The Leafs were down 2-1 after […]
Dear editor: This letter is in reference to an article written by Mike Baranowski that appeared in the Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000 edition of your paper. The article is absolutely inaccurate and, as a result, portrays an unfair and unacceptable picture of an historical competitive event within Ontario Special Olympics. […]
Dear Mr. Behan: This letter is pursuant to the article of Mr. Jack Tynan in the Daily Bulletin dated March 9, 2000. It was my understanding that Mr. Tynan was not at the meeting with the Fort Frances town council held on March 8, 2000, however, in his article he […]
Dear sir: The late Tommy Douglas was the father of medicare when he introduced it in Saskatchewan. His budget targeted 70 percent of health care. The Liberal government of the day made health care universal in Canada. They funded it 50 percent. The present Chrétien government reduced it to some […]
The Town of Fort Frances and the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board have sent competing proposals to the Ministry of Health to provide the district’s land ambulance service. The service currently is provided by the province through Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. here. “I don’t think there are […]
Although there may be a little snow on the ground again this week, the Ministry of Natural Resources already has posted some firefighters at four of its area bases in anticipation of another early fire season this spring. As of last Monday, headquarters here, in Dryden, Kenora, and Thunder Bay […]
If Jane Johnstone of Fort Frances didn’t know any better, she’d swear the Royal Canadian Mint deliberately made the November, 1999 25-cent piece of the “Millennium Canada” collection in memory of her late son, Brad. Designed by Brian R. Bacon, the coin salutes the bush plane which helped open Northern […]
